PIERRE FICHET

Rare and large gouache dated 62 by this great artist who appeared in the retrospective "l'envolée Lyrique Paris 1945/1956" at the Luxembourg Museum in 2006

Pierre Fichet, born August 10, 1927 in Paris and died January 8, 2007 in Poissy, is a contemporary French painter. His work fully reflects the abstract movement of the School of Paris, his workshop was located in the artists' city of Bateau-Lavoir, at 13, place Émile-Goudeau, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris

Pierre Fichet had, in his own words, "entered into abstraction" in 1952. After hesitant beginnings between what then appeared as two irreconcilable genres, alternately figurative and abstract, he abandoned the first, strongly inspired by the religious paintings of Philippe de Champaigne or Zurbaran, to prefer the second. Noticed by the writer and art critic Michel Ragon, he joined the Arnaud gallery, which defended lyrical abstraction at the time, and exhibited regularly there from 1955.
In 1959, Pierre Fichet participated in the first Paris Biennale, inaugurated by André Malraux at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1965, at the request of Michel Ragon, he became, with the filmmakers Jacques Caumont and Jean Herman, an "observer member" of GIAP, the International Group for Prospective Architecture, which the critic had co-founded with Yona Friedman, Paul Maymont, Georges Patrix and Nicolas Schöffer.
He participated in numerous collective and personal demonstrations from the 1950s.

Pierre Fichet's painting is a gestural painting, seeking
the immediate expression, the “trapped” sensation, which he obtains by
the use of a limited range of blacks, grays, whites often
lit by a few drips of bright color.
Spirituality and the sacred have constantly permeated his work throughout his career.
 

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